Talking with Families About Depression
This resource provides tips for staff to help them have conversations with families about depression.
Depression
Experiencing depression is common. Understanding how to cope with it can ease the burden. Learn more about depression, how to identify it, and how to help yourself and others through it.
Fathers, Families, and Mental Health
Want to find out how to best support the entire family system? This webinar explores the unique experiences of fathers, appropriate screening tools and interventions, and the impact of fathers on families.
Connecting All Parents with Perinatal Mental Health Services
Perinatal depression is common, but it can be treated with screening and referrals for care. In this webinar recording, learn strategies to help all birthing parents access effective mental health care.
Mothers and Babies: An Intervention to Prevent Postpartum Depression
Mothers and Babies (MB) is an evidence-based intervention to prevent postpartum depression. This webinar recording provides an overview of MB’s key components and implementation details.
Identifying and Addressing Maternal Depression
Depression is common among pregnant women and new mothers and can affect the health of both mother and child. Learn about the importance of identifying women who may benefit from mental health support and services.
Family Connections Workshop Series for Staff and Parents
Explore these six workshops, three for professionals and three for parents. All of the workshops focus on knowledge and skills related to strengthening relationships with adults and children and promoting family well-being.
5 Action Steps to Address Maternal Depression in Head Start Programs
While roughly 15% of new mothers suffer from maternal depression, the rates are much higher in families with lower incomes. In fact, 52% of mothers in an Early Head Start research study reported high levels of depressive symptoms.
1302.46 Family support services for health, nutrition, and mental health.
Programs must collaborate with parents to promote children’s health and well-being by providing medical, oral, nutrition and mental health education support services that are understandable to everyone.
Depression in Mothers: More Than the Blues – A Toolkit for Family Service Providers
The toolkit provides information about depression and offers ideas that providers can use daily when helping mothers and their families.
Family Connections: A Mental Health Consultation Model
Explore Family Connections, a preventive, systemwide mental health consultation and training approach to strengthen the capacity of Early Head Start and Head Start staff. Staff can use these resources in working with families dealing with parental depression and related adversities.